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Healthy Traveler Report - 4 Tips To Unlock The Power Of Mindful Healthcare Meetings

In the healthcare sector, meetings play a vital role in exchanging ideas, strategies, and knowledge-sharing among healthcare professionals and team members. With ever-increasing expectations from participants, it’s critical for meetings to be customized to meet their specific requirements. In this blog, we’ll talk about how mindfulness can address these needs and share some tips to put control in the hands of meeting planners. Mindfulness is the practice of being completely present and engaged in the moment with an open, positive mindset. Mindfulness can improve a conference participant's experience and information retention by boosting focus and decreasing tension and anxiety, whilst establishing stronger connections with fellow attendees and presenters.

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07 Jun 2023

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How to save water at your events

Water is one of Earth’s most precious natural resources, and managing how we use it better is good for both people and the planet.

Despite being used at events in many ways, from F&B to cleaning and sanitation, water usage can often be overlooked when it comes to event sustainability efforts. With the focus heavily on reducing the carbon impact of events (and quite rightly so), this is an area that deserves more attention.

But 2.2 billion people around the world still lack safely managed drinking water, according to the United Nations, which estimates that the demand for freshwater will exceed supply by 40% by 2030. Access to safe and clean drinking water is a basic human right, and event planners have an opportunity and a responsibility to manage it more mindfully.

That might include checking your venue’s water conversation policies, rethinking menu choices to options that use less water when they are produced, and not prefilling water glasses or using ice buckets.

Even small changes can make a big impact, and here are some of our top tips to get you started…

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04 Oct 2023

4 min to read

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Shining the spotlight on our meeting and events specialists

Events are all about people and working with the right people to deliver your meetings and events is vital to ensuring their success. That's why we are passionate about developing our people to become experts in the MICE sector. We invest in making sure our global meeting and events team gets the right training and experience to enable them to deliver truly memorable moments for our clients and their attendees.

To showcase the breadth of their expertise, we shine the spotlight on Daisy, Muriel and Priyanka, three of our M&E specialists across the globe, who share their passion for providing the highest levels of service, exceeding client's expectations, and staying on top of the latest trends.

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23 Mar 2023

5 min to read

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Taking Meetings to New Heights: Sky Lab Experience

Meeting planners are constantly on the lookout for innovative ways to help their clientele get the most out of in-person gatherings. And, with companies hungry for ways to elevate their thinking and take their businesses to new heights, organizers must apply the same kind of out-of-the-box creative thinking their clients are seeking to their own events.Focus on creating memorable moments that resonate with attendees long after the event ends. Incorporate into the design of your event experiences that encourage attendees to step outside their comfort zone, a proven method to boost creative thinking and problem-solving skills.

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How to elevate your events with AI

Once confined to the realm of science fiction, artificial intelligence has begun to seamlessly integrate into daily life, with groundbreaking tools like ChatGPT highlighting its mainstream acceptance. Indeed, savvy meeting planners are already utilizing AI to streamline their workflow.AI for events is however not just about robots and automation; it's about leveraging data to create smarter, more efficient experiences. AI has the power to enhance every aspect of event management, from planning and marketing to execution and evaluation. It transforms not only how events are planned but also how they are experienced. Long heralded for its ability to increase human productivity but also met with trepidation for what its widespread adoption might mean for the human workforce, meeting planners can help their clients gain confidence and familiarize themselves with AI by highlighting the synergy between AI and human creativity, underscoring how their combined force can significantly enhance brainstorming and problem-solving efforts. If you’re curious about how AI can enhance your next gathering, here are three takeaways:

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Why you should consider a secondary city for your next event

It's always a good time to branch out from the tried and tested popular MICE destinations and explore new locations for your meetings and events. While capital and primary cities will always be attractive to meeting planners, a new notable trend is emerging and a multitude of secondary cities are gaining prominence, according to Global DMC Partners, the largest global network of independent Destination Management Companies, which recently unveiled its Global Destination Index. 'This shift in travel preferences highlights a transformative aspect of the industry, where the popularity of destinations is no longer solely dependent on a few primary cities,' says Global DMC Partners President & CEO Catherine Chaulet. 'Instead, a diverse array of secondary locations is now collectively shaping the travel landscape, offering a rich and multifaceted experience to meeting and event attendees worldwide'.

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How to make the most of your event budgets

With the end of the year approaching fast, most event organizers are already looking ahead to 2024 and allocating budgets for their meeting and event programs across the next 12 months. No matter the size of your budget, big or small, now is the perfect time to re-evaluate your event goals to ensure you are getting the best ROI (return on investment) and ROO (return on objectives) possible. This will help you to maximize your budget, prove the value of your events to the business, and demonstrate that the money is being well spent. Here, we share some tips to ensure you are getting the most out of your event budgets.

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How to make the most of large conference venues

Large congresses, meetings and events require big spaces in easily accessible destinations. But as any organizer who has delivered a large event knows, size isn’t everything. Of course, the meeting venue needs to be big enough to accommodate the number of delegates attending in person, but with so many large events now including virtual and hybrid elements, state-of-the-art technology, reliable high-speed internet, and excellent lighting and sound are an absolute must. From Amsterdam to Frankfurt and London to Stockholm, our collection of XL Venues offers sizable and striking spaces to accommodate your biggest events, as well as state-of-the-art technical equipment and dedicated on-site support from our team of experienced Radisson Meetings specialists. On top of that, we also have a range of Grand Venues offering generous dimensions in top global locations with capacities over 250 attendees. But large conference rooms can be intimidating for meeting organizers. It can be a challenge to know how best to optimize a huge empty space, especially for hybrid audiences. In this blog, we focus on some of the things you should consider when sourcing and setting up large conference rooms.

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Why High-Flyers Book Meetings at Airport Hotels...

The airport hotel market was one of the first travel sectors to recover after the pandemic. And bookings continue to soar, as savvy M&E planners pick up on all the advantages of holding their special meeting or event at a hotel set right by the airport.

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